GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| defer | put off |
| constraint | the act of constraining |